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Re: [xmca] Jones on Learning under capitalism
Robert, do you have the link for the Smagorinsky article?
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On Nov 1, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Robert Lake wrote:
> *Hi Everyone,*
> *Don't forget this from Peter Smagorinsky (See below).*
> *
> *
> *Robert Lake*
>
> In case anyone's interested, I coauthored a book chapter on Freire and
> Vygotsky. In my view, they're a hard pair to match, as we outline in the
> chapter. I don't have the final pdf but am attaching the last version I
> have of the manuscript during editing.
> The reference:
> Souto-Manning, M., & Smagorinsky, P. (2010). Freire, Vygotsky, and social
> justice theories in English education. In sj Miller & D. Kirkland (Eds.),
> Change matters: Critical essays on moving social justice research from
> theory to policy (pp. 41-51). New York: Peter Lang.
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> I don't know of anyone who's analyzed Freire in terms of CHAT, but it
>> would really interesting.
>>
>> In Freire's alphabetization/**conscientization work with adult peasants,
>> the motivation for the activity is not literacy itself. Literacy is
>> attained as a means for conducting the activity that is constructed in
>> pursuit of motivating objects that are identified by the learners
>> themselve; and there is a systematic use of written artefacts mediating the
>> activity.
>>
>> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Silvio Marquardt wrote:
>>
>> Dear Ana,
>>>
>>
>> Could you "situate" Freire`s statement within the activity system ?
>> "Critical reading" as "Activity" seems to be something worth trying.
>> How far is the "Freire-CHAT" debate up to now ?
>>
>> Yours, Silvio
>>
>> ______________________________**__
>> From: Ana Paula B. R. Cortez <apbrcortez@yahoo.com.br>
>> To: Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>; "eXtended Mind, Culture,
>> Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 12:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Jones on Learning under capitalism
>>
>> Hello, everyone!
>>
>> Here is Freire's definition of reading, in "Carta de Paulo Freire aos
>> professores" (Freire's letter to teachers - In Portuguese at:
>> http://www.scielo.br/scielo.**php?script=sci_arttext&pid=**
>> S0103-40142001000200013<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-40142001000200013>
>> )
>>
>>
>> "Ler é uma operação inteligente, difícil, exigente, mas gratificante.
>> Ninguém lê ou estuda autenticamente se não assume, diante do texto ou do
>> objeto da curiosidade a forma crítica de ser ou de estar sendo sujeito
>> da curiosidade, sujeito da leitura, sujeito do processo de conhecer em
>> que se acha. Ler é procurar buscar criar a compreensão do lido; daí,
>> entre outros pontos fundamentais, a importância do ensino correto da
>> leitura e da escrita. É que ensinar a ler é engajar-se numa experiência
>> criativa em torno da compreensão. Da compreensão e da comunicação."
>>
>> My free translation of the extract:
>>
>>
>> "Reading is an intelligent, difficult, demanding, but gratifying
>> operation. Nobody authentically reads or studies if, facing the text or the
>> object of his/her curiosity, he/she doesn't take a critical stance as the
>> subject of curiosity, the subject of reading, the subject of the process of
>> knowing where he/she is. Reading is to try to create the understanding of
>> what's being read; therefore, among other crucial points, there lies the
>> importance of teaching reading and writing in a correct way. Teaching how
>> to read means engaging in a creative experience revolving understanding.
>> Understanding and communication."
>>
>> Well, I don't think there is anything else to comment about it.
>> Enjoy!
>> Ana Paula Cortez
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